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Author: "The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan."

Jenny Nordberg is an investigative reporter and the author of "The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan" (2014). This book grew out of her 2010 New York Times article about the practice of "bacha posh" (girls growing up disguised as boys in gender-segregated Afghanistan). Currently a New York-based columnist for the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, Nordberg has won several awards for her work, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the Swedish journalism award Guldspaden.

FROM Jenny Nordberg

Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Underground Girls of Afghanistan Afghanistan is the most dangerous place in the world to be born a girl, according to UNICEF. While most girls are illiterate and forced into marriage, boys have a lot more freedom, including the right to go to school. So, some parents are disguising their girls and raising them as boys, a practice known as bacha posh.

13 MIN, 46 SEC Oct 15, 2014

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